Pictured: Lucy Carapetyan

Raven Theatre has announced the cast and production team for the Chicago premiere of Melissa Ross’s NICE GIRL.

Directed by Lauren Shouse, the production features Lynne Baker (Francine), Lucy Carapetyan (Josephine), Stella Martin (Sherri), and Benjamin Sprunger (Donnie)

Pictured (l-r): Lynne Baker, Lucy Carapetyan, Stella Martin and Benjamin Sprunger

The production team includes Lauren Nigri (scenic design) Noel Huntzinger (costume design), Rebecca Jeffords (lighting design), Sarah Putts (sound design), John Buranosky (properties design), Jason Martin (dialect coach), Sydney Achler (scenic artist), Sapier Weinglass (asst. stage manager), Jordan Pokorney (assistant director), Stephen Johnson (production manager), Diane D. Fairchild (master electrician) Jonah White (asst. master electrician & asst. lighting design) and Wilhelm Peters (stage manager).

It’s 1984 and Josephine Rosen has a dead-end job, lives in a suburb of Boston with her mother, and has settled into the uncomfortable comfort of being single at 37. When flirtation with an old classmate and a new friendship at work give her hope for change, she begins taking tentative steps toward a new life. NICE GIRL is a play about the tragedy and joy of figuring out who you are and letting go of who you were supposed to be.

NICE GIRL runs January 24 – March 11, 2018 in Raven’s East Theatre, 6157 N. Clark St. (at Granville) in Chicago. For more information visit raventheatre.com.